Years before mankind began to extract natural resources en masse, Moscow occupied various territories to control trade routes - whoever owns them gets rich. Now Russia is massively losing any trade routes: The EU, Australia, Ukraine, Moldova, Canada and the US have imposed sanctions and all trade routes to these countries have been cut off. Now trade routes in Asia are being cut off as well. Recently, China, and Uzbekistan started building a railroad bypassing Russia.
This transnational branch will allow to deliver cargoes from China through Central Asia to the EU without paying duties to the Russian side, which will significantly reduce the revenues of the Russian budget.
National republics and regions located in the territory of trade routes from China to Europe will receive less income, their living standards will decline, and Russia will have nothing new to offer them but to compensate for the loss of trade routes by increasing the intensity of natural resource extraction and developing new deposits, which will increase the negative impact on the environment and provoke a subsequent surge in the incidence of various diseases. The regions will be faced with the question of whether to disengage from Russia and resume their status as transporters of Chinese goods or to destroy their ecology with more mines and quarries, the resource of which will be quickly exhausted anyway.
Source: Free Nations League
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